Demonstrations provide students with memorable experiences they have to reconcile with their understandings, calling into doubt their old frameworks and incorporating new concepts in their personal theories. This page contains resources to help you find and use compelling demos in your classes.
Strategies for Using Demonstrations in your Classroom
Sources for Demonstrations
Steve Spangler Science - Steve Spangler is a classroom teacher who also has a business selling science stuff. His demonstrations are regular features on various TV shows such as Ellen, etc.
Naked Scientists - Home Experiments - The Naked Scientist is a radio show/podcast from Great Britain that has a "try this at home" segment in most of their shows. These experiments are listed on their website.
How Things Work - A document summarizing several physics demonstrations for an introductory level physics course.
Dry ice is great fun all year, of course, but there’s just something about October and Halloween that really brings out the coolest dry ice experiments. One of my favorites is also one of Spa...
For some students, the science fair is coming up pretty soon, and it’s high time they started thinking about some cool experiments. For other students, the science fair is a long way off, but...
Halloween is Steve’s favorite time of year and he believes it’s not the same without a little ooey, gooey, spooky fun! To make your Halloween super slimey, Steve is giving away 20 ...
It’s WOW Week on the Today Show and it only makes sense to bring in a YouTube science guy to share some internet classics. Decked out in a white lab coat and safety glasses, Nick Uhas st...
If your child has expressed an interest in science, or even if he/she hasn’t, a membership in the Spangler Science Club is the perfect gift, for no child can resist a box full of awesome toys...
While people are still planting seeds for the summer’s gardens, why not be a little novel about it and use some polymers, specifically Water Jelly Marbles, or Clear Spheres? Spangler Science&...
Non-Newtonian fluids are an aspect of science that is simple, interesting, and a lot of fun. Non-Newtonian fluid experiments are also inexpensive; there are only two ingredients and both are ...
There are so many creative things to make and do with Spangler Science’s Color Changing UV Beads – that we’re going to focus on how they teach sun safety. Our UV Color C...
Steve Spangler’s Insta-Snow is not only a useful science experiment, science fair project, gardening or decorating activity; it is also a ton of fun! When you play with it using martini...
When someone is as awesome as Ellen DeGeneres, people tend to listen to what that person has to say. So when Ellen says, “Steve Spangler is the science teacher you always wanted to have in sc...
Strategies for Using Demonstrations in your Classroom
Sources for Demonstrations
Demonstration Feeds
Steve Spangler Science